Prominent theory research on voting uses models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence …. Accordingly, we examine a complementary model of large-N elections at the opposite end of the spectrum, where pivotality effects … determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many …

studies strategic voting when voters have pure common values but may be ambiguity averse -- exhibit Ellsberg-type behavior …

ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …

majority voting can decide more efficiently than single-person decision-making, in terms of having a higher probability of … choosing the better alternative. Wit (1998) showed that the nonasymptotic Condorcet jury theorem holds under strategic voting …

probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole's "feedback" case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic …

In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting …

and argue that instead utilitarian, i.e. cardinal social choice theory is relevant for voting. I show that justifications …Utilitarian voting (UV) is defined in this paper as any voting rule that allows the voter to rank all of the … alternatives by means of the scores permitted under a given voting scale. Specific UV rules that have been proposed are approval …

The paper challenges the "orthodox doctrine" of collective choice theory according to which Arrow's "general … possibility theorem" precludes rational decision procedures generally and implies that in particular all voting procedures must be … flawed. I point out that all voting procedures are cardinal and that Arrow's result, based on preference orderings cannot …